CAREER: Studies in Hadron Collider Physics

顶夸克是我们已知存在的六种夸克中最重的一种。 由于它是如此之重，目前只能在费米实验室Tevatron生产。 PI是理解顶夸克衰变的领导者。 这项研究计划将使他能够继续专注于研究这种粒子的衰变，并使他能够致力于升级CDF探测器，以便积累更高的顶夸克衰变统计样本。 这将使标准模型能够在新的能量区域进行探测，并可能揭示新的物理学。 此外，PI正在进行一个项目，使用Java在万维网上建立一系列交互式物理演示。

The top quark is by far the heaviest of the six types of quarks we know to exist. Since it is so heavy, it can currently only be produced at the Fermilab Tevatron. The PI is a leader in the efforts to understand the decays of the top quark. This research program will allow him to continue his focus on studying the decays of this particle, and will enable him to work on upgrading the CDF detector so that a much higher statistics sample of top quark decays can be accumulated. This will allow the Standard Model to be probed in a new energy region and may reveal new physics. In addition, the PI is working on a project to use Java to set up a series of interactive physics demonstrations on the World Wide Web.